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Since this week, after the usual winter break, the LHC particle accelerator at CERN is back in business again for the experiments (among which three that Nikhef works…

Very optimistic about a big surprise, he is not. But the hunt for something new is wonderful work in itself, says VU professor of particle physics Wouter Hulsbergen….

At the Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy, researchers from the ATLAS experiment at CERN presented the results of their research that teaches us more about one of…

Everything in the universe consists of matter and not antimatter, but why is a mystery. Nikhef theorist Marieke Postma is receiving NWO funding for her research into this…

Last weekend, the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were honoured with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The prize is…

Dark Matter researcher Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia has been appointed as professor by special appointment in ‘Novel Detection and Analysis Techniques for Dark Matter and Neutrino Experiments’ at the…

The LHCb experiment at CERN has revealed a fundamental asymmetry in the behaviour of particles called baryons. Yesterday, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in…

The international network of the LIGO (Verenigde Staten), Virgo (Italië) and KAGRA (Japan) gravitational-wave observatories just announced the detection of their 200th candidate gravitational wave signal in this…

Last year, the board of the Olga Igonkina Foundation decided to award the Olga Igonkina Scholarships 2024 to master’s students Anna Lewicki and Sergei Solokhin. The award was…

A team of six PhD students and six postdocs is starting to work on  improving the design of the Einstein Telescope. The aim is to work towards a…

For the development of a special kind of sensor, the Nikhef R&D (Research & Development) group has received a grant from Holland High Tech of almost 700,000 euros….

The KM3NeT Collaboration announces the detection from the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea of a cosmic neutrino with a record-breaking energy of about 220 PeV An extraordinary event…

To our great sorrow, we received the sad news of the passing of Paul Kuijer. Although Paul had been retired for a number of months, he was undiminishedly…

Management and staff of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef wish you a prosperous 2025. Due to Christmas and New Year, the institute will be closed from…

Three Nikhef projects receive funding from NWO within the ENW-XL Open Competition. These include the future Einstein Telescope, research into the Higgs boson and research into the universe….

At the most recent meeting of the KM3NeT collaboration, a new management team was elected for the next two years, including two Nikhef researchers. Together with the new…

The latest issue of DIMENSIES is all about change. This issue features Stan Bentvelsen, who has been at the helm of the Nikhef partnership for the past ten…

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its 2024 Consolidator Grants to 328 researchers across Europe. These grants, totalling €678 million, aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars…

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world-wide largest cosmic ray detector covering an area of 3000 km². It is operated by a collaboration of more than 400 scientists…

Nikhef researcher Bjarni Pont, postdoc in the Cosmic Radiation (Auger) group is one of three people to have received the Auger Impact award this year. The Auger Impact…